Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1101arrow-down1message-squareOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
See, I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it’s perfect example of something impossible today.
minus-squaresatanmat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoEh. One person could be influencing in the recent past… Walter Cronkite, declared the Vietnam war unwinnable and “people “ say that changed Americans view on it. Today, I agree there are too many voices and too many people have their “own realities” for one person to affect the national discourse. I don’t think is aliens landed the majority of Americans would believe their own eyes if their news said it was fake.
Eh. One person could be influencing in the recent past…
Walter Cronkite, declared the Vietnam war unwinnable and “people “ say that changed Americans view on it.
Today, I agree there are too many voices and too many people have their “own realities” for one person to affect the national discourse.
I don’t think is aliens landed the majority of Americans would believe their own eyes if their news said it was fake.